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Thursday, November 14, 2013

How Long Can Smash Bros. Last?

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - The brothers are out of a job.

When you really think about it, how can Iwata ask Sakurai to make a sequel to Super Smash Bros. 4 in the future? Look at Nintendo's line-up of games going on. It's all Mario this, Mario that. That plumber is raking in the inflated coins while the rest of the Nintendo cast is out in the cold. There won't be any new F-Zero. Nintendo's new franchise ideas end up bombing. So with a series all about fanservice, how can the fans be serviced if Nintendo franchises are basically becoming discontinued?

"Oh, that's okay." You might declare. "We'll just call them all retro now." How many "retro" characters can you have before you realize, "Well, where are all the new characters?"

I've always said Brawl's theme is very retro, from the character choices like Pit to all the new retro (...oxymoron?) stages like 75M. So maybe it's a stylistic excuse. Or maybe the stylistic excuse is because Nintendo's current franchises are being discontinued and new ones are doing terribly or not existing. (I'd be fine with some Chibi Robo representation.) Consider Super Smash Bros. to be a barometer of Nintendo's current state.

"But Ludwig! There are tons of characters to pick! There's no worry at all! Look at all the requests on Miiverse!"

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